What this story boils down to is that this WH has an enemies list, and they are neither afraid nor restrained in their response to said enemies. In fact, they are so brazen that they have no compunction threatening a member of the LSM that had already brought down another president, over much less, with serious payback, and felt they could get away with it. They figured the only people that would dare care, and then only if Woodward had the cajones to talk, would be the evil conservatives. The rest of the LSM? They will do what they are told, because they know where their bread is buttered.

No wonder that with the LSM behaving like it does,covering and shilling for them, the WH thought they could give Woodward the shakedown with impunity. I am going to enjoy watching this blue on blue massacre. PASS THE POPCORN!

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Politico has the emails where a senior WH Exec threatened Woodward, so now they are just left with damage control.

Doesn’t look like there were too many real threats being made in those emails. Hell, Sperling starts the email by saying “I apologize for raising my voice in our conversation today. My bad.” Read it any way you want, but a good number of conservative writers are saying there’s nothing here:

When Woodward tells of being warned he would “regret” challenging Obama, it sounds ominous. But if Politico’s reporting today is correct, it seems much more innocuous than that. Looks like we were played.

I think you are way out on a limb here. So now Matt Lewis, Erick Erickson, Byron York and the former Chief of Staff to Donald Rumsfeld are happily disseminating liberal talking points? All four of them read the emails and agreed that Sperling didn’t threaten Woodward.

Even if we accept the narrative of intimidation, Woodward said “I think if Obama himself saw the way they’re dealing with some of this, he would say, ‘Whoa, we don’t tell any reporter ‘you’re going to regret challenging us”.
Alex, how does that square with the claim of some sort of orchestrated “Obama thugocracy” and that “the WH thought they could give Woodward the shakedown with impunity”?

Or do you, as usual, just get to pick and choose to suit yourself?

The collectivists have no clue what they are doing….

Again, I thought this was some sort of ‘plan’, which could even be predicted before the election?
Clueless geniusness- wtf?

Gene: You do not ever have to apologize to me. You get wound up because you are making your points and you believe them. This is all part of a serious discussion. I for one welcome a little heat; there should more given the importance. I also welcome your personal advice. I am listening. I know you lived all this.

Does that read like a man writing to someone threatening him with anything?